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At the Ballot Boxes or in the Streets and Factories: Economic Contention in the Visegrad Group

CÍSAŘ, Ondřej a Jiří NAVRÁTIL

Základní údaje

Originální název

At the Ballot Boxes or in the Streets and Factories: Economic Contention in the Visegrad Group

Autoři

CÍSAŘ, Ondřej (203 Česká republika, garant) a Jiří NAVRÁTIL (203 Česká republika, domácí)

Vydání

Farnham, Austerity and Protest. Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis, od s. 35-53, 19 s. The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture, 2015

Nakladatel

Ashgate

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14560/15:00084917

Organizační jednotka

Ekonomicko-správní fakulta

ISBN

978-1-4724-3918-5

Klíčová slova anglicky

protest; mobilization; austerity; economy; Great Recession; Central Europe

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 2. 5. 2016 13:55, Mgr. Daniela Marcollová

Anotace

V originále

Although some knowledge exists on how economic restriction and protests are related in “old” Western democracies, little is known about how economic situation and protest are related in new democracies. This context is different from the established democracies for several reasons. Citizens and social movements in these countries are pictured as apathetic towards politics, disengaged, politically passive, and protesting very little. Simultaneously, these new democracies have been dealing with severe economic and financial hardships already from the very beginning of their existence and have experienced several waves of austerity measures in the last 20 years. The paper examines protest on issues pertaining to economy, welfare, and social policies – which we call “economic protest” – in Eastern Europe and more specifically in the so-called Visegrad Group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). It shows that the level of economic protest varies strongly across these four countries, with Czech Republic and Slovakia being much less contentious than Hungary and Poland. It maintains that available theories are poorly equipped to explain such differences and argue that the explanation lies on the overall structure of the political conflict of these post-communist countries and, more specifically, that economic protest emerges under the conditions of a suppressed economic cleavage in the field of party politics.

Návaznosti

EE2.3.30.0009, projekt VaV
Název: Zaměstnáním čerstvých absolventů doktorského studia k vědecké excelenci